"I Don't Really Understand What's Happening": The Movie

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2013)

I fully admit that I am not in the target demographic for this film, being a man in my 40s, but I'm a film director by profession so I have to watch all significant theatrical release movies.
While viewing the "film" (I suppose that's what you'd call it) all I could really think was "Step aside Jackson Pollock, there's a new king of envelope-pushing abstract art in town!".
What in the hell was going on? I could distinguish that there was one guy who was black (Idris Elba) whose accent fluttered around any and every English speaking country from moment to moment. Then there was a Japanese woman (Rinko Kikuchi) who had some blue bits of hair. But I seriously didn't realize that any of the white guys were different until they happened to be on the screen at the same time.
I absolutely love dense screen compositions, but there's a point where frenzied complexity transitions into white noise, and I felt that point was passed almost all of the time in this film.
It saddens me that Hollywood is squandering so many hundreds of millions of dollars on glorified video game cut-scenes like Pacific Rim when master auteurs like David Lynch and Paul Schrader can't get the funding to shoot a pack shot.
Pathetic!